Barbarous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Primitive in culture and customs; uncivilized.
  • adj. Lacking refinement or culture; coarse.
  • adj. Characterized by savagery; very cruel. See Synonyms at cruel.
  • adj. Marked by the use or occurrence of barbarisms in spoken or written language.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not classical or pure.
  • adj. uncivilized, uncultured
  • adj. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians.
  • adj. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
  • adj. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
  • adj. Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Foreign; not classical or pure; abounding in barbarisms; of or pertaining to an illiterate people: applied to language, originally to languages which were not Greek or Latin. See barbarism.
  • Speaking a foreign language; foreign; outlandish: applied to people. [Archaic.] See barbarian, n., 1.
  • Characterized by or showing ignorance of arts and civilization; uncivilized; rude; wild; savage: as, barbarous peoples, nations, or countries; barbarous habits or customs.
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of barbarians; adapted to the taste of barbarians; barbaric; of outlandish character.
  • Cruel; ferocious; inhuman: as, barbarous treatment.
  • Harsh-sounding, like the speech of barbarians: as, wild and barbarous music.
  • Synonyms Barbarian, Barbarous, Barbaric (see barbarian); ruthless, brutal, fierce, bloody, savage, truculent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. primitive in customs and culture
  • adj. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
  • Equivalent
    Cross Reference
    cruel    uncivilized    heathenish    cacophonous   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    brutal    merciless    uncultivated    uncivilized    unlettered    ferocious    untutored    ignorant    rude    foreign   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    brutal    barbaric    inhuman    primitive    absurd    unjust    heathen    corrupt    lawless    ruthless